C# Logical Operator

In this chapter you will learn:

• What is C# Logical Operator?
• How many types of Logical Operators in C sharp?
• How to use Logical operators in a program?

The C# Logical Operator also evaluates the values and returns true or false as output. Based on true-false the program behaves dynamically at runtime. This operator is widely used with C# programming.

&& Operator :It is pronounced as and operator. It returns true if both or all the conditions are true and return false if any of the condition is false.

Example

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace and_operator
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string name, password;

            name = "Steven";
            password = "Steven123";

            // evaluating both expresson and returns true if              all are true.
            if (name == "Steven" && password == "Steven123")
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Login Successful");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Unauthorised access");
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Output

Login Successful
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|| Operator:It is pronounced as or operator. It also returns true or false based on condition. If any one of the condition matches then it returns true but if both or all the conditions are false then it returns false.

Examples

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Or_operator
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string username, userpassword;

        label: //Creating label

            Console.Write("\n\nEnter your login name:\t");
            username = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("Enter your password:\t");
            userpassword = Console.ReadLine();

            try
            {
                if ((username == "Steven" || username == "Clark") && (userpassword == "demopass"))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("\nLogin Successful.");
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("\nUnauthorised Access. Aborting...");
                }

                Console.Write("\n\nPress Y or y for continue. Press N or n for Exit:\t");
                char ans = Convert.ToChar(Console.ReadLine());
                if (ans == 'Y' || ans == 'y')
                {
                    goto label; //goto label

                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Press  Enter for Aborting...");
                    Console.ReadLine();
                    return;
                }
            }
            catch { }
            
        }
    }
}

After debugging this code, you can login by two different names as Steven and Clark. The password would be same with both username as Steven Clark.

Output

Enter your login name :  Steven

Enter your password :    demopassLogin

Successful.Press Y or y for continue. Press N or n for Exit:    y
Enter your login name :   Clark

Enter your password :     demopass



Login Successful.



Press Y or y for continue. Press N or n for Exit:    y



Enter your login name :   Mark

Enter your password :     demopass



Unauthorised Access. Aborting...



Press Y or y for continue. Press N or n for Exit:    n

Press Enter for Aborting...

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! Operator:It is pronounced as not operator. It returns true if expression is false. The following demonstration will clear the concept of not operator.

Examples:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Not_Operator
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string username, password;

            Console.Write("Enter user name:\t");
            username = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.Write("Enter Password:\t");
            password = Console.ReadLine();

            if (!(username == "Steven" && password == "demopass"))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("\nLogin Successful");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("\nUnauthorised Access. Aborting...");
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

In the above example if you will enter the username as Steven and Password as demopass then it will deny you to login because it is evaluated by not (!) operator that returns false if the conditions match.

Output

Enter user name :    Steven

Enter Password :  demopass

Unauthorised Access. Aborting... __

Examples

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace xor_operator
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string name, password;

            name = "Steven";
            password = "demopass";

            //it returns false because both expression match.
            if ((name == "Steven") ^ (password == "demopass"))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Acess granted...");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Access Denied. Aborting...");
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

In the above example, the both expression returns true, so the xor operator returns false and print "Access Denied. Aborting…"

Output

Access Denied. Aborting...
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Summary

In this chapter you learned about different type of C# logical operator as && (and) operator, || (or) operator, ! (not) operator and ^ (xor) operator. You also learned how to use these operators in a program. In next chapter you will see some programming examples of C# operators